The U wrote:Yes, but how much of that is due to the position switch and playing with 71 instead of 87?

Position switch doesn't make him slow. He isn't very good along the boards no matter what wing he plays on. I expected better than this from him. I don't think putting him with Crosby is going to help any. Sid has trouble right now with finding pucks in his feet along the wall. Iginla isn't going to help him there.

Dickie Dunn wrote:Malkin and Iginla don't work well together. Their styles just don't mesh.

Malkin needs creative players around him. I'm not sure Iginla has the creativity levels to play with him.

Iginla doesn't. He's an old school power forward. Very structured game. Get the puck in deep and grind it out. Chaos in front of the net. Its just not Geno's style. Unfortunately, at this point in time Geno's style seems to be turning the puck over once you've barely crossed the blueline and giving up odd man breaks.

I just finished the game on dvr because I had to work. Here's some of my thoughts.

-This was the Isles Stanley Cup, congrats because they will get embarrassed in both games at home-Nabokov channeled early 2000's Nabakov, I don't think he will be able to keep that up-The Pens play reminded me of last year's playoff fiasco-The Islanders won on a lucky bounce, it took everything they had and more and still barely won

My only comment on this game was that it was strangely similar to last year's fiasco against Philly. Go up early 2-0 or 3-1, then take dumb penalties, proceed to let the opponent tie the score, and eventually blow the lead while the offense completely vanishes. One would think that when your team captain comes back from a broken jaw and scores two quick goals that the team would be fired up after a performance like that. But they turtled and wasted an incredible effort by Sidney Crosby.

I was disturbed by Granato's interview when the score was 3-3 right after they blew the lead. He was all smiles, calmly stating that the Pens need to get to their game. The coaches should have been furious, especially after the team allowed 20 shots in the first period.

No adjustments were made by the coach who had the last change. Bylsma is now 6-10 in the post season at CEC. All ten losses were against inferior teams, and mirrored tonight's loss. His coaching style is simply not intense enough for the playoffs.

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RxBandit66 wrote:My only comment on this game was that it was strangely similar to last year's fiasco against Philly. Go up early 2-0 or 3-1, then take dumb penalties, proceed to let the opponent tie the score, and eventually blow the lead while the offense completely vanishes.

I was disturbed by Granato's interview when the score was 3-3 right after they blew the lead. He was all smiles, calmly stating that the Pens need to get to their game. The coaches should have been furious, especially after the team allowed 20 shots in the first period.

No adjustments were made by the coach who had the last change. Bylsma is now 6-10 in the post season at CEC. All ten losses were against inferior teams, and mirrored tonight's loss. His coaching style is simply not intense enough for the playoffs.

As with most of your posts, you have no idea what you are talking about

Easton wrote:I thought Geno played pretty damn well this game, save a few turnovers.

Malkin was our best forward. He created the most. He did have a couple turnovers but overall he played well.

The problem is that when Geno was out the Pens without a doubt played their most disciplined and successful hockey. Geno just likes to freestyle all the time, he never seems to move up the ice with his linemates and work systematically.